RJD President Lalu Prasad Yadav’s elder son Tej Pratap is younger than his second son. That’s what their voter identity cards indicate, anyway. The older boy, Tej Pratap has given his age as 25 whereas the younger brother Tejaswi has listed his as 26.
If you want to be logical in the exercise, then Tej being the elder brother, should be older than his younger brother and not younger than his younger brother. And if this puzzle has you all knotted up you are not the only one.
With the mercury in the Bihar elections reaching the red hot point, everything is an issue but this one stands out because the Yadav trio (Dad and his sons) don’t think the discrepancy is a very big deal. Naturally, the BJP has grabbed the opportunity and stated through its general secretary that if Lalu cannot keep his house in order how is he going to manage the state.
The other funny part is that Tejaswi is shown as having passed class IX from the prestigious DPS at R.K.Puram in Delhi but the allegation is that he doesn’t want to show his real age and if a board examination certificate is asked for it will reveal his genuine date of birth.
Says the BJP state president Mangal Pandey, “I am convinced he has studied more than class IX.”
In all this rising dust no one has stopped to ask why a couple of years would make such a vital difference and what is the advantage in lowering your educational qualifications. If Tej Pratap had said he was 27 or 28 or whatever would it have been a sensational discovery?
But the BJP has decided to push the matter and demanded a ‘probe’ into the nomination papers alleging a fraud.
Truly, the Bihar elections throw up the most unique situations.
